2006 Utah Code - 34A-2-416 — Additional benefits in special cases.

     34A-2-416.   Additional benefits in special cases.
     (1) An administrative law judge may extend indefinitely benefits received by a wholly dependent person under this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act, if at the termination of the benefits:
     (a) the wholly dependent person is still in a dependent condition; and
     (b) under all reasonable circumstances the wholly dependent person should be entitled to additional benefits.
     (2) If benefits are extended under Subsection (1):
     (a) the liability of the employer or insurance carrier involved may not be extended; and
     (b) the additional benefits allowed shall be paid out of the Employers' Reinsurance Fund created in Subsection 34A-2-702(1).

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 375, 1997 General Session